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Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart Hardcover – November 27, 2007

by Patrick J. Buchanan (Author)

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America is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence. Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture. In Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan reveals the true existential crisis of the nation and shows how President Bush’s post-9/11 conversion to an ideology of “democratism” led us to the precipice of strategic disaster abroad and savage division at home.

Ideology, writes Buchanan, is a Golden Calf, a false god, a secular religion that seeks vainly, like Marxism, to create a paradise on earth.

While free enterprise is good, the worship of a “free trade” that is destroying the dollar, de-industrializing America, and ending our economic independence, is cult madness. While America must stand for freedom and self-determination, the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard of some “world democratic revolution” is, as Iraq shows, imperial folly that will bring ruin to the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, the idea that we get in Russia’s face and hand out moral report cards to every nation on earth is moral arrogance. While we have benefited from immigration and the melting pot worked with millions of Europeans, the idea we can import endless millions of aliens, legal and illegal, from every culture, clime, creed, and continent on earth, and still remain a country, is absurd.

To save America the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have nearly killed our country.

In his final chapter, Buchanan lays out ideas to prevent the end of America. He calls for a bottom-up review of all of America’s Cold War commitments, a ten-point program to secure America’s borders, ideas to halt the erosion of our national sovereignty and restore our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence, and a formula for finding the way to a cold peace in the culture wars.

Buchanan offers a radical but necessary program, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of America -- whether we survive as one nation and people, or disintegrate into what Theodore Roosevelt called a “tangle of squabbling nationalities” and not a nation at all.

IN THIS EYE-OPENING BOOK, PAT BUCHANAN REVEALS THE PERILOUS PATH OUR NATION HAS TAKEN:

- Pax Americana -- the era of U.S. global dominance -- is over.

- A struggle for world hegemony among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam has begun.

- Torn apart by a culture war, America has begun to Balkanize and break down along class, cultural, ethnic, and racial lines.

- Free trade is hollowing out U.S. industry, destroying the dollar, and plunging the country into permanent dependency and unpayable debt.

- One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush.

- The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to U.S. survival than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq.

…IS OUR DAY OF RECKONING JUST AHEAD?

Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart

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Editorial Reviews

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"Vintage Buchanan: provocative, intelligent."

--Kirkus Reviews

"Buchanan can write, and he knows how to provoke. He presents [his foreign policy prescriptions] forcefully and often persuasively. They deserve a wider hearing in American politics than they are currently given."

--The New York Times

"Those who have dismissed Buchanan in the past as a gadfly might consider what he says in his book. The future of what's left of the country could very well rest on it."

--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"Pat Buchanan's new book, "Day of Reckoning," is a tour de force ... a powerful case that free trade, multiculturalism and imperial overreach threaten to put America on the dustheap of history."

--Creators Syndicate

"Pat Buchanan's penetratingly astute Day of Reckoning ... is a strident wakeup call for America.... Buchanan ... will remain a strident American voice to be listened to and reckoned with for some time to come."

--Family Security Matters

Book Description

In his latest New York Times bestseller, Pat Buchanan deals with the greatest crisis facing the nation today: Whether the America we knew and loved will survive many more decades. Buchanan lays out how the United States is being secretly merged with Mexico and embedded in a Global Economy by that threatens the permanent loss of American independence and sovereignty.
While free enterprise is good, the worship of “free trade” is de-industrializing America, killing the middle class, and imperiling U.S. economic independence. While America must stand for freedom, liberty and self-determination, the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard is imperial folly that will bring down the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, the idea that we get in Russia’s face and hand out moral report cards to every nation on earth is moral arrogance. While we have benefited from immigration, the idea we can import limitless numbers of aliens and remain anything like a real country is absurd. To save America the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have near killed the country.
Buchanan sees America in an existential crisis. In his final chapter, he lays out ideas to stop the suicide of America. He includes a bottom-up review of all America’s foreign commitments and entanglements, a plan to secure America’s borders, ideas for halting the erosion of our sovereignty and for restoring our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence. Buchanan offers a radical program, but a necessary one, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of the nation -- whether we survive much longer as one people, or disappear from history.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (November 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312376960
ISBN-13: 978-0312376963
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #672,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1606 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Commentary & Opinion
- #5785 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines

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Buchanan for President!

By Loyd Eskildson HALL OF FAME on November 26, 2007

Format: Hardcover

Pat Buchanan's latest book ("Day of Reckoning") cuts through the irrelevancy of today's politics and political correctness and clearly identifies the major threats to continuing our standard of living and world leadership. Mincing no words, he states that "America is coming apart . . . we are on a path to national suicide." Going on, he points out that we are being taken over by the greatest invasion in history (from Mexico) that is adding to the existing fragmentation of our culture and unity. European-Americans comprised 89% of the U.S. when JFK became President - now it is down to 66% and sinking further.

Buchanan sees our invasion from Mexico as a bigger threat than anything happening in Afghanistan and Iraq! Between 10 and 20 percent of all Mexicans, Central Americans and Caribbean people have already moved into the United States, about one in twelve here illegally has a criminal record (95% of the 1,200-1,500 warrants for homicide in L.A. target illegal aliens, and diseases once stamped out America such as drug-resistant TB, syphilis, and leprosy are surfacing in city after city.

Meanwhile, we act as though Social Security and Medicare are on sound footing, convince each other that free trade and the loss of millions of jobs through outsourcing to Asia is good, and ignore the hollowing out of American manufacturing that won WWII. As corporate CEOs rake in millions in pay and stock options, workers' pay stagnates and declines, and worker pensions and health care benefits also deteriorate. At the same time, the dollar sinks to new lows and may be abandoned by OPEC and Asian nations (creating financial chaos and high inflation in the U.S.Read more ›

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There is no greater sorrow on Earth, then the loss of ones native land

By Sidewalk Sam on December 4, 2007

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This is Pat Buchanan's best attempt yet to articulate how America is headed for the edge of the abyss and must turn aside if it wants to survive.

He casts America's problems into a clearer light by using the lessons of history as background and perspective. (The quote from Euripides, I used as a title is found on page 238).

He explains the Utopian visions of idealoges from Milton to Wilson as the basis for much of the Bush administrations flawed foreign policy. In fact he spends almost half the book in a detailed analysis of the Bush Doctrine and his critique of why they are both unobtainable and not in America's best interest to even pursue.

This, sadly, will alienate a large part of his natural audience - those of conservative views - who are steadfast Bush supporters.

That is truly unfortunate, because the problems he describes in the other parts of the book are far more important then the eight year tenure of one particular president.

He presents a lot of unpalatable truths - for example, in a very real and literal sense, Europe is dying. The birthrate has fallen well below replacement levels and the French and Germans and Italians will one day be gone. Vanished into the footnotes of history.

To those of a globalist perspective, this does not matter. We are all citizens of the world - nationalities are irrelevant.

But it really does matter. A homogenized world, with everyone the same, doing the same things, eating the same food, wearing the same clothes would be devoid of savor. A song with only one note. A menu with only one item - Spam.Read more ›

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Caution if you're already depressed!!

By Anton Karidian on March 3, 2008

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The title of Pat Buchanan's DAY OF RECKONING could just as well be DOOM AND GLOOM - it's a real downer! I should note to start off that I'm a liberal, yet I agreed with Buchanan a lot more often than I expected. This is probably due to the fact that, although he may be quite conservative, he is not a NEO-conservative like George W. Bush and company. As, I much enjoyed the first half of the book, which is a vehement condemnation of Bush's decision to invade Iraq, and I agree when Buchanan describes that as senseless from many standpoints - militarily, culturally, in dealing with terrorism, and so on. Strangely, he then characterizes the desire of many Americans to get out quickly as evidence of "an empire in terminal decline" (p. 236), yet does not explain that. He helpfully details all the defense commitments we have gotten ourselves into all over the world since WW II, and I agree with his assertion that we are in "imperial overstretch." Also, I admire Buchanan's historical perspective on things, and he throws in many good quotes as part of that.

Other issues - I sympathize with his fear that we are allowing too many immigrants into the U.S., that we need to slow that down and give those here time to assimilate. Also, I agree with the general outline of his assertion that the U.S. economy is in deep trouble, and that free trade is much of the reason. I'm glad to hear him denounce conservative economist Milton Freedman's gospel on that. After all, what good are lower prices due to free trade if the cost of that is a gutted American economy and many consumers here either out of work or forced to take much lower paying jobs?

I won't attempt to summarize the entire book, so I'll just mention two issues that I strongly DISAGREE with Buchanan on.Read more ›

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